Microsoft has announced the retirement of its popular Bing Search APIs, effective August 11, 2025, surprising many developers who relied on them.
The Bing Search APIs are quite popular among developers since Google doesn’t offer its search results via APIs. Developers were able to get ad-free, location-aware search results from billions of web links. Even competing search engines like DuckDuckGo used Bing Search APIs to build alternative search experiences.
Today, Microsoft announced that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11, 2025. Developers were taken aback by this sudden announcement from Microsoft, and the aggressive deprecation timeline is also concerning.
